The gospel of Republicanism morphed from Hooverism into the ‘Reagan Revolution’ and wedded unbridled greed with a cloak of religiosity. Right-wing social Darwinism has become a new religion of elitist economics wedded with politics, and then religion, dubbed ‘moral values. ’ Poverty, according to the neo-con-Reagan Republican,was and is best addressed by ‘market forces’ (laissez faire economics) and poverty is a moral stigma
that is, in their view, a self-inflicted problem: a deserved punishment for one's own "laziness and inferiority". The neo-con therefore despises Democrats who don’t see things their way as ‘traitors’ and “socialists” or “communists”
In this view, those who advocate for the ‘have-nots,’ even would-be advocates among the pathetic, watered- down American “left” are pronounced guilty of formenting moral perversion and military weakness, lack of patriotism, high taxes and now, globally, of even enabling America’s enemies. Progressives’ suggested remedies to crony-capitalist social inequality are considered outright thievery from “legitimate business interests”.
The neo-con 'god' of right wing jingoism becomes the foot soldier for elitist accumulation of wealth, and is perpetuated by elections at home punctuated by resorting to voter fraud, buying elections and smearing dissenters, and abroad by use of invasion, violence and force. It is all based on cementing the current oligarchic social order wherein the wealthy are the only ones who can afford to, and thus deserve to, aspire to public office.
This is evolving toward a caste system in which the rich elite perpetuates its hold on absolute power and deifies itself as ‘worthy' to rule and make policy. Worship of income status, a narrowly defined set of religious beliefs and global military adventurism are proof of the neo-con’s acceptance before God and his or her worth as a human being of 'good' moral fiber”. Right wing authoritarianism, classism and wedded pharisaic "Christianity" have become a national religion and staple of our "red states" whose primitive authoritarian social structure lends itself to serving neo-cons as a re-election machine and the staunch whitewashers of the social Darwinist ‘robber-baron’ mentality.
Add to the economics and religion of it a new global jingoism (the euphemism: ‘war on terror’ replaces the old, outmoded ‘anti-communism’). As a
As a result our country has been saddled with a new politico-economic-religious system wherein no dissent is tolerated. The poor, the immigrant, the young, the minority and the ‘liberal’ become the new pariahs, and have little or nothing allowed them in the way of a say in how and whether to cut the social safety net, send our young adults to war, and outsource jobs.
Opprobrium is heaped by the neo-cons on any who oppose the agenda of starving and overworking the poor, arrogating to the rich top 5 percent all decisions regarding national sovereignty and appropriation of tax money and low wage labor their primary mode of self-enrichment using public policy making to bleed off wealth from the public workers. This may seem like an oversimplification of this heartless philosophy, but it is not.
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